[112842] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Redundant AS's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Mar 21 11:44:32 2009
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:44:23 -0700
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
In-Reply-To: <878wn060t6.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
>> It takes me about 3-5 hours of work to track down and get an old
>> unused ASN to be deallocated. How about updating the 2010 charging
>> model so that LIRs that return ASNs are compensated?
>
> I don't think this is a good way of using RIR funds. Why should the
> old guys receive even more special treatment? RIPE's charging scheme
> already discriminates heavily against newcomers.
beancounters know how cut expenses, not how to increase sales. thus,
they (though well-meaning) shrink the company and eventually drive it
into the ground.
the real path is to move forward, increase income, and grow.
perhaps there is a lesson here. move on to 4-byte asns.
randy
